The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-10-22
NINE KILLED.
Another Railroad Smash on the Chicago
& Atlantic Road at the Little Town
of kouts, Ind.-Many COLLECTING Re
ports-As Usual the Wreck Takes
Fire,

A dispatch of the 11th from Kouts
Ind, says: THE worst horrors, of
Chatsworth were duplicated here to-
day A dozen blood-stained, smoke
begriEed, injured victims of railroad
carelessness, or blundering, were
brought into the village station-house
early this morning and this afternoon
nine chafred corpses, victims of
the same blundering or carelessness
were laid upon the station platform,
while three miles west, down the track
of the Chicago Il Atlantic Railway, near
lonely old water tank, piles of fear
fully tangled debris, marked the spot
where a collision, seldom equaled for
terrible results, had occurred. Accord
ing TO the best estimate obtainable-for
only an estimate was possible-fully 30
human lives had been sacrificed outright
and half that number of persons had
suffered Injuries more or less serious.
The east-bound express, that left Chica-
60 last night with a great load of passen-
gers, had, without moments warning.
during temporary wait, been smashed
into from behind by a heavily loaded
fast freight, plunging madly forward III
the darkness, in hurrying dressed meats
to the markets of the seaboard. Some
part of the machinery of ,he passenger
engine had been thrown out of
order during the run from Chicago. A
tritling stop at the water tank would
make 1t all right, it was thought, and
the stop was accordingly made. Sud
denly, out OF the darkness behind came
the flash of a headlight, the rush and
rattle of many wheels and then a mighty
crash. Just as at Chatsworth the mas
slve framework of the sleeper was trans
formed into Il huge catapult. Pushed
mercilessly forward by the freight, it
crushed into the ears forward, smashing
| their comparatively light timbers and
making the work of destruction COM
plete. The wreck quickly took fire and
the sight of the shrieking victims and
dancing flames was one never to be for
gotten"
Many conflicting reports were sent
| out during the day, and late at night the
following was received from Hunting
| ton, signed by Coroner a. Z. Leather
man:
Cannot as yet give names of killed.
There were eight adults and one child
killed; two wounded at Kouts now.
Know nothing Of any others wounded" "
CHICAGO, HI, Oct. 13.-Special dis
| patches to the Chicago papers to-day, as
| to the extent of the Chicago q Atlantic
| mort direct from Kouts the day of tho
| disaster. The InterOcean has partic-
| uiarly significant interview with Dr. j.
| II. MacClure, of Boone Grove, who,
with DR.. Mckee, of Kouts, was act
| i've in aiding the sufferers at
| the wreck. ''Those remains which
| were recovered" he says, "are of
| persons who were sitting on the seats
| near the windows, and fell outwards
| when the charred framework fell to
| pieces; but those who were sitting inside
| and whose remains fell on the rails were
| burned to powder, and not a vestige Of
| them except perhaps a few pieces of
| bone would be found. | was told by one
OF the wreckers that he saw little heaps
| of bones, and this was corrobor-
ated by the statement of others, and
doubtless that was all that remained of
those who fell between the tracks"
DR.. MacClure states the number burned
to death as at least sixteen or eighteen.
| Of the wounded he speaks definitely
| and his tOta. Is even higher than the
| press estimates. DR.. MacClure says:
AT Mller's Hotel In kouts, after the
| accident, there were seven ladies and
ten men, making seventeen in all"
| j. A. Frederick, who lives at Kouts
and failed to get aboard the train at
Hammond, said he knew there were
over fifty passengers aboard the train
when it left Hammond. Lew Thorn, a
well-known travelling man. interviewed
| the porter of the rear Pullman car on
| the train. The porter stated that the
tickets in the possession of the con-
| ductor showed that nineteen passengers
were missing. The porter himself
| counted fifteen bodies, all burned to a
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